The Santa Fe New Mexican, May 27, 2013

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Lawmakers, tribes on mission to honor forgotten soldiers at National Mall with memorial By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press

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LBUQUERQUE — The Navajo Code Talkers are legendary. Then, there was Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes, the Pima Indian who became a symbol of courage and patriotism when he and his fellow Marines raised the flag over Iwo Jima in 1945. Before World War II and in the decades

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Native American veterans push for recognition

since, tens of thousands of American Indians have enlisted in the Armed Forces to serve their country at a rate much greater than any other ethnicity. Yet, among all the monuments and statutes along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., not one stands in recognition. A grass-roots effort is brewing among tribes across the country to change that, while

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u Vietnam veterans in Angel Fire find support through one another and in writing. u Monuments for past armed service members decay as funding dries up. Page a-4

Galisteo Basin Preserve survives slump in housing market with mission to conserve land

LEFT: The 8,000-square-foot home, owned by the Nashville couple, features a control center for its solar and geothermal energy supplies. CENTER: The home has more than 200 solar panels, making it the state’s largest residential solar array. The panels are expected to last 25 years. RIGHT: The entrance to the Galisteo Basin Preserve off U.S. 285 just north of Lamy.

Preservation Power The former Trust for Public Lands employee said the group’s flagship project — purchasing and developing a walkable mixed-income community on 13,000 acres in the Galisteo Basin Preserve while keeping 90 percent of the land undeveloped and open to the public — was intended to become a model for dual-purpose land development. Ten years, and one giant real estate slump later, the group has managed to acquire more than 9,000 acres of basin property formerly known as Thornton Ranch, and has the remaining 4,000 or so acres under contract. About 4,225 acres

By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican

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ommonweal Conservancy President Ted Harrison wants to harness the arguably destructive forces (and economic power) of the real estate development business to serve the greater good. “I like to think of Commonweal’s work as something of an aikido practice,” Harrison said in an email, “where we take a potentially violent force, and use it instead for the purpose of conservation.”

have been overlaid with conservation easements, which place strict limitations on future development and reserve public access. The preserve also includes 18 miles of trails — part of a planned 50-mile network — that are open to the public for walking, biking and horse back riding. But a slow real estate market has stymied Commonweal’s plan to develop residential community of 900-plus homes on the northeastern end of the vast holding. The group requested

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After two years of construction, an 8,000-square-foot home nears completion at the Galisteo Basin Preserve. The home, which is owned by a couple from Nashville, Tenn., features a manmade waterfall, half a dozen bathrooms, two kitchens and a room designed to house the couple’s cats. PHOTOS BY CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

Drought drives thirsty, hungry wildlife into yards Center reports an increase of distressed animals seeking refuge in residential areas By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

Recently, a mother Bobcat and her four kittens were reported living underneath a home in Eldorado, according to The Wildlife Center. The center says more distressed animals area seeking refuge in residential areas. COURTESY PHOTO

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Bobcats in the yard. Bull snake in the kitchen. Residents around Northern New Mexico are seeing an increased number of normally elusive wildlife up close and personal as drought drives the animals to seek food and water. Staff at The Wildlife Center in Española are fielding calls daily from residents concerned about the distressed wildlife they are finding. Most recently, a starving Western screech

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owl from Las Campanas near Santa Fe and a family of thirsty bobcats were brought to the center. A woman in Taos found a bullsnake in her kitchen. “People are just finding wildlife in their yard they don’t usually see,” said Katherine Eagleson, executive director of The Wildlife Center. The center specializes in helping injured wildlife recover and return to the wild. “What is disturbing is the number of birds and animals we are getting now that aren’t injured, they are just starved and dehydrated,” Eagleson said. “They’re so weak that by the time we get them, their livers have shut down,” Eagleson said. We’ve been able to save some, but we’ve lost others.” Starving songbirds are among the species

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Model Railroad Club Featuring circus models and trains; plus, a Veterans/MIA train, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, 3229 Rodeo Road, no charge, santafemodelrailroadclub.org.

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